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Satellite Events for Tonight

Mapping the Universe's Largest Objects

Reported by Universe Today

A team of scientists has released a new survey mapping massive galaxy clusters, some of the largest structures in the universe, to test whether our fundamental understanding of the laws of the universe need revision. The analysis, using six years of Dark E...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:26 +0000

The Hidden Gas That Builds Stars

Reported by Universe Today

Astronomers have created the first large scale map of dark molecular gas in the Milky Way, revealing vast networks of invisible star forming material that have so far have remained undetected. Using the Green Bank Radio Telescope to observe faint signals f...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:15 +0000

Building Homes Beyond Earth

Reported by Universe Today

A new study has reviewed how space habitat designs have evolved from inflatable bubbles to 3D-printed structures built from Martian dust. The research traces how engineers have wrestled with extreme temperatures, the bombardment of radiation, and the chall...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:06 +0000

Spying Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Near Perihelion

Reported by Universe Today

Everyone’s favorite interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS isn’t really hiding near perihelion this week, as amateur astronomers reveal. Don’t believe the breathless ballyhoo that you’re currently reading around the web about interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. In a...
  • By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:30 +0000

Fifty Years of Dark Matter

Reported by Universe Today

In the 1970’s Vera Rubin didn’t set out to upend modern cosmology....
  • By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:58 +0000

Many Asteroid Rotations Are Chaotic. A New Model Helps Explain Them.

Reported by Universe Today

Asteroids spin. Most of them do so rather slowly, and up until now most theories of asteroid rotation have failed to explain exactly why. A new paper from Wen-Han Zhou at the University of Tokyo and his co-authors might finally be able to fully explain tha...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:37 +0000